Sarah M. H. Nouwen is Reader in International Law and Co-Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She worked in Sudan for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a consultant for the Department for International Development and as a legal advisor to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan. She is the author of Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and an Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law.

Laura James is Senior Middle East analyst at Oxford Analytica, a political risk consultancy firm. Previously, she was an affiliated lecturer teaching Middle East politics at the University of Cambridge and an independent consultant specializing in the interface between political and economic issues in the Middle East and Africa. She spent five years in Khartoum, working as an economic adviser for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Union. She was also an adviser to the mediation team on the South Sudanese secession negotiations. Before that, she worked as a Middle East analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Sharath Srinivasan is Co-Director of the University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights, David and Elaine Potter Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He lived in Sudan and worked for the International Rescue Committee in the early 2000s, and has researched on Sudan ever since. He is a member of Council for the British Institute in Eastern Africa and a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute. He is the author of the forthcoming book, When Peace Kills Politics: International intervention and unending war in the Sudans (Hurst & Co).